Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library Blog

VisualDx was recently licensed by the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. A tool to assist in diagnosis, VisualDx contains over 50,000 images of diseases covering all age and skin types. You can use the differential diagnosis menu to help search for a condition by entering patient findings or use the search feature to find a specific diagnosis. A diagnosis text for the condition will show a general synopsis, diagnostic pearls, recommended diagnostic tests, therapies, and a tab linking to all images associated with the condition.

On September 17th the United States commemorates the Constitution and its role in shaping our government and our society. Join the UCLA Library and the University of California campuses in celebrating this document and what it represents by learning about its history and its influence upon the United States.

The University of California’s Office of the President has created a Constitution Day web page. This page provides links to primary documents and intepretations of primary documents. UCLA’s federal government documents librarian, Maria Jankowska, has created a subject guide for Constitution Day. This guide includes links to a digitized version of the Constitution and other primary documents in American history, resources for performing research on the Constitution, and information about citizenship and civics in the United States.

Today’s celebration also serves as a reminder that the campaign for the next American president is underway, and elections will occur on November 4th, 2008.  Exercise the rights provided to you by the Constitution and its amendments and ensure that you are registered to vote in the state of California. If you intend to vote in this fall’s Presidential election, you must be registered by October 20th, 2008.

Want to take a quick look at AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing and just don’t have a copy handy? How about AAFP Conditions A to Z? Access to these title and fourteen other nursing books is as close as your computer. Simply start at the Biomedical Library home page and link to STAT!Ref Nursing.

In addition to quick and easy access, you will also be able to search for topics across all the titles and quickly read the relevant parts of each.

PubMed has created a new tool to convert PMCIDs to PMIDs and vice-versa. Every article citation in PubMed is tagged with a PubMed ID (PMID). Every article deposited into PubMedCentral  is tagged with a PubMedCentral ID (PMCID). Unfortunately, there is no linkage between these two different identification numbers: a PMCID has no correlation with a PMID.

The new PMID:PMCID Converter, created by the National Library of Medicine, makes it easy to look up a PMCID number by PMID, or look up a PMID number using the PMCID. Please note that not all articles indexed in PubMed are deposited into PubMedCentral, and not all articles in PubMedCentral are indexed in PubMed.

A recently-enacted National Institute of Health (NIH) policy requires all articles arising from NIH-funded grants be deposited in PubMedCentral. This policy also requires NIH grant applications to include PubMedCentral IDs for individual articles cited in the application (if the article is deposited in PubMedCentral).

Have questions about complying with the NIH access policy? Visit the UCLA Library’s  NIH Access Policy web page to get answers and get connected to resources to assist you.